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EXPORTING XML for FINAL CUT?
Hi
I’ve done an edit in Premiere Pro CS5.5 and need to hand it over to the director. There are no effects in the Premiere project file apart from the slowing down of a few clips, frame blending and some scaling of a few shots.
If I export as a Final Cut XML and send the XML file along with all the seperate mov files used in the project will it be converted to Final Cut exactly how it is in Premiere Pro with the slowing down(time remapping) of clips, frame blending and rescaling- will all those changes be transferred or is it just the cuts that are visible in FCP?
Any advice is very much appreciated.
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8 Replies
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Hi
Time remapping will not get passed in the final cut xml as this is a premiere implementation. Scaling of clips should work ok, but the frameBlend attribute is not in the DTD so I wouldn’t expect this to work either.
One very quick and dirty test is to export the FCP xml, then start a new blank premiere project and import the xml. Then open the sequence up and see what has broken.
For your time remapped clips, one approach is to nest each time remapped clip into it’s own sequence (right click the clip and select nest). Then open up media encoder, load the project and select all the nested clips for encoding. Encode all those clips to new files, import them back into your project and replace the nested sequence clips with the newly rendered clips (with the time remapping burnt in).
Now when you export, your time remapped clips are just like any other. I’m assuming that your director want’s to be able to edit (hence sending over xml) so this would preclude the time remapped clips from further editing.
If your director just wants to see the film, then you could just render out the timeline for him/her to view only.
Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS6/ FCS3 / Canon XLH1 / Canon 7D / Reason / Cubase“it’s either binary or it’s not”
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Hi Declan,
Thank you so much that is all extremely helpful and eases my mind some what. Yes the footage includes lots of green screen so they’ll key it out in FCP and also grade it. I’ll try out what you suggest.
Cheers!
Simon
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do i need to nest any reversed clips or is it just speed adjusted ones?
Thanks in advance
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Hi Im a complete novice as you can tell- what format do i output the nested files in encoder to to put them into premiere?
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I would suggest that you should output them to the same format as the majority of your existing sequence clips, or choose a codec such as prores (which will be compatible with final cut pro, assuming you have access to prores).
Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS6/ FCS3 / Canon XLH1 / Canon 7D / Reason / Cubase“it’s either binary or it’s not”
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Sorry but I’m a a alien to media encoder, this is the first time I’ve ever looked at it and want to make sure I have it spot on! After I import the nested sequences I leave it on what it says already, Format- F4V, Preset- Match Source Settings. I’m exporting these files as F4Vs now.
When sending the XML file to be opened up in FCP another computer. And sending all the individual files along with the actual XML project file- so the individual files I’ll send are the original Movs and these new F4Vs used in the project sequence, will these F4V files open up properly in FCP and everything be A-OK!?
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It’s a difficult question to answer as it depends on your project and what codecs are installed in your computer. I would need to know what format your existing MOV files are in and what size they are (in terms of video size eg 1920 x 1080 or PAL or NTSC etc) to properly answer this.
If you are talking about FInal Cut Pro 7, then really, you want to be exporting as Quicktime files using the ProRes 422 codec. I can’t vouch that everything will be ok. The XML is an interchange format, and one that is quite loosely specified meaning different systems provide different levels of support.
Generally, I would import the XML into an empty Premiere Project first to see whether it all hangs together.
Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS6/ FCS3 / Canon XLH1 / Canon 7D / Reason / Cubase“it’s either binary or it’s not”
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Hi Declan, I have F4v files I need to transfer with a XML from premiere to FCP and have been trying to convert the F4vs to Apple Pro Res but have been unsuccesful , I need to convert them into Prores with the original MOVS also converting into prores so they can be opened by the director in a apple prores project in FCP, any advice? Cheers
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